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Specifically the Exe Estuary Special Protected Area (SPA) and Ramsar Site supports over 20,000 wildfowl in the winter months, including the internationally important populations of avocet Recurvirostra avosetta, dark-bellied brent goose Branta bernicla bernicla and the slavonian grebe, Podiceps auritus.
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They caught wildfowl for the ever-increasing colony, and built new pens and enclosures for them.
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Two will be described here: pillow mounds and former rabbit warrens, and decoys for taking wildfowl.
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A network of tracks lead to places where waders and wildfowl can be seen in their thousands, where buzzards ‘sky dance’ and where puffins, razorbills, guillemots and kittiwakes jostle for space.
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The ducks are among hundreds of wildfowl, including moorhens, coots and Canada geese based at the university, which is famed for its natural habitat.
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When busy with birdlife, more than 23,000 birds, including 28 species of wildfowl, have been recorded here - including rare types such as scaup, smew, long-tailed duck, scoter and Bewick's swan.
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A network of tracks lead to places where waders and wildfowl can be seen in their thousands, where buzzards ‘sky dance’ and where puffins, razorbills, guillemots and kittiwakes jostle for space.
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Low tide reveals mile upon mile of sandy beaches and mudflats that provide rich pickings for the thousands of wading birds and wildfowl from neighbouring Leighton Moss and other parts of the bay.
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In 1999 we treated the western end of Fairburn Ings with barley straw and numbers of wildfowl have increased threefold since that time.
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He went forward through the reeds and the wildfowl called as they lifted from the water, disturbed by his passing.
THE KEYS OF HELL
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They came to fetch birch bark for their canoes, chase wildfowl, fish salmons and sturgeons, but above all to catch the phenomenal quantities of eels that they smoked and stocked up for winter.
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Deer, rabbits, partridges, pheasants, wildfowl and fish were tithable by special custom only.
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A rare marsh dowd, which is normally found in Madeira, has been identified on the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust's Martin Mere reserve in Lancashire.
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The temperature had dropped dramatically, and he was pleased to be able to get a good blaze going before setting to work plucking and preparing his wildfowl.
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Wildfowlers would like to get redshanks back onto the list of birds which can be legally shot.
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This development attracts passage migrant waders, nesting lapwing and redshank together with winter wildfowl.
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No wonder the North Kent Marshes is the winter home of an estimated 200,000 wildfowl and waders and that its biodiversity is regarded as being of international importance.
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He received his BA in Zoology from Oxford and his PhD from Bristol before doing a post-doctorate with future Nobel laureate Niko Tinbergen at the Wildfowl Trust.
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The Central Science Laboratory is also collaborating in another project with the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust which is exploring whether greylags seen in Britain are migrants from Greenland or belong to a population resident in the UK.
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The gravel pits have been landscaped and planted to make them attractive to wildfowl.
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Low tide reveals mile upon mile of sandy beaches and mudflats that provide rich pickings for the thousands of wading birds and wildfowl from neighbouring Leighton Moss and other parts of the bay.
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Two will be described here: pillow mounds and former rabbit warrens, and decoys for taking wildfowl.
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Where possible the river is now allowed to flood in winter, creating water meadows that attract many different wildfowl.
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The forests supported tigers, elephants, wild boar, oxen, and deer, as well as wildfowl.
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The forests supported tigers, elephants, wild boar, oxen, and deer, as well as wildfowl.
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The Norfolk coast, renowned for its wealth of wintering wildfowl and waders, continues to attract parties of ever-elusive and enigmatic shorelarks.
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The website provides students with a guide to the number of moorhens, mallards, coots and other wildfowl to be found on streams, ponds and other stretches of water near their chosen university.
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The water park is a nationally important area for over-wintering wildfowl.
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The Severn Estuary, where the celebrated naturalist Sir Peter Scott founded Slimbridge, the wildfowl refuge which became one of the world's most famous nature reserves, provides an 86,000-acre feeding ground for wild swans, geese and many thousands of wading birds, such as dunlin, turnstone, oystercatcher and ringed plover, from all over Europe.
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This development attracts passage migrant waders, nesting lapwing and redshank together with winter wildfowl.
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In addition, I have several subsidiary areas of interest, including, not surprisingly, wildfowl, and also mountaineering and political biographies.
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Finally, I drove eastwards towards Sheppey, past Funton Creek, where reptilian glasswort plants replenish seed-stocks for hungry wildfowl, to Bedlam's Bottom to enjoy a glowing sunset.
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Walkers will be on the lookout for birds such as short-eared owls, winter wildfowl and the elusive hen harrier.
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The crickets ceased from their sing-song chant, the wildfowl from their squabbling, and the raven croak broke midmost and died away in gasping silence.
THE MARRIAGE TO LIT-LIT
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Nearby is the Heritage Museum of local history and the Wildfowl Trust bird sanctuary.
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The survey was carried out by an organisation called Duck Density with the help of volunteers who kept a tally of wildfowl.
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Situated on the Tees estuary, the area is already an internationally-famous Ramscar class wetland refuge for birds, waders and wildfowl.
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If oil entered the lagoons, damage to fish spawning grounds, wildfowl habitat and local commercial and subsistence enterprises could be, literally, incalculable.
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Migratory wildfowl, notably wild ducks, are carriers of the viruses, but are unlikely to develop an infection.
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The estuaries and salt marshes of the Solway Firth, in southwest Scotland, are feeding and roosting grounds for many thousands of wintering wildfowl.
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Wildfowl, such as ducks and geese, were caught, and deer, boar and hares were hunted.
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The portly bank manager, Su Dapeng, offers to take us hunting for wildfowl and to pose for a portrait.
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The website provides students with a guide to the number of moorhens, mallards, coots and other wildfowl to be found on streams, ponds and other stretches of water near their chosen university.
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Ruddy ducks, which many say are not edible, were brought into Britain from American in 1950 and escaped into the wild from wildfowl collections.
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It is known as a wintering site for whooper swans, which arrive from Iceland, and wildfowl such as widgeon, teal and mallard.
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I am a member of a small deer stalking syndicate [5 in total] where we lease the sporting rights on a block of commercial hill forestry & manage the resident population of roe deer, I also buy a few days away for the larger deer species & so have a .243 Win & .270 in addition to a .22 for rabbiting etc & a few shotguns for driven shooting & wildfowling etc.
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Farther down, where freshwater met salt, a dozen little estuaries nourished tall stands of marsh grass and dozens of species of wildfowl, from the elegant Canada geese to widgeons with calls like rubber duck squeeze toys to the long-legged, long-billed lesser yellowlegs.
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The Central Science Laboratory is also collaborating in another project with the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust which is exploring whether greylags seen in Britain are migrants from Greenland or belong to a population resident in the UK.
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He hatched and hand-reared 22 chicks at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in Slimbridge, which is home to the largest colony of breeding flamingoes in the county.
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The Nene, or Hawaiian Goose, was bred at the Wildfowl Trust in England until enough were available for reintroduction to Maui.
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The 20-page text makes a valiant attempt to comprehend wildfowl biology.
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The ducks are among hundreds of wildfowl, including moorhens, coots and Canada geese based at the university, which is famed for its natural habitat.
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Some of the wildfowl known as ruddy ducks tend to fly to Spain for the winter and then stay on for the spring mating season.
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Red deer, along with various wildfowl and fish, were all important elements in the menus of the royal court of Henry VIII.
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Their account of their explorations, which were of a place that was cool and teeming with game and wildfowl, stoked the interest of the boss.
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Many thousands of wintering wildfowl feed and roost among the country's estuaries and salt marshes.
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To appreciate a swan spectacular on a grand sale, visit the Wildfowl and Wetland Trust's Welney reserve.
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Wintering birds on the pond itself include Teal, Shoveler, Pochard, Tufted Duck, Cormorant, Canada Goose, Water Rail, Snipe and Pintail, with many of the wildfowl species staying on to breed.